400 years since the first slave ships landed.
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Confronting 400 Years
This August marks 400 years since the first slave ships arrived on the shores of Virginia—400 years since the now—United States began systematically devaluing and dehumanizing Black Americans. America's unwillingness to recognize and address the harmful legacy of slavery as an institution has also prevented it from living up to its founding principles of freedom and equality. 400 years later, the United States remains home to stark racial disparities in access to housing, economic opportunity, and even the ballot box. Throughout this special issue of InProgress, you'll find a new series of research detailing those inequities and prescribing innovative policy solutions to create a nation that finally lives up to its ideals.

Perhaps the clearest illustration of systematic inequality is the racial wealth gap. To kick things off, check out the new racial wealth gap simulator—a calculator that shows how several progressive policies, such as cancelling student loan debt or combatting housing discrimination, would affect racial disparities in economic wellbeing. Do your part today: learn what policies we can enact to combat systematic racism.

Check out the interactive wealth simulation »

In the Spotlight
A Time for Truth and Reconciliation
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While the United States has made progress toward creating a "more perfect union," the seeds of this nation's birth continue to influence society to this day.

This piece will give you an overview of how the tainted roots of slavery have gone unaddressed and continue to perpetuate inequality in America. It then makes the case for what the United States needs to do to begin to rectify 400 years of oppression against Black Americans.

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Dive into Specific Inequalities:

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Economic Opportunity
The U.S. economy was built on the exploitation and occupational segregation of people of color. Here is the minimum that lawmakers must do to begin to correct the economic injustices.

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Democracy and Voting
Learn the history of discrimination at the polls and how lawmakers today continue to create and preserve barriers to voting for people of color. Together, we can fight back.

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Housing and Segregation
See how America's housing system undermines wealth building in communities of color through housing displacement, exclusion, and segregation—and what we can do to rebuild equality.

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Equal Pay
Yesterday was Black Women's Equal Pay Day—the day that a Black woman's earnings working full time in the United States finally catches up to white men's 2018 earnings.

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